I'm on my airmaxxing ventilation arc, doing a twice a day (when it's closest to room temp outside so early morning and late night) 5-10 minute opening of all the windows. Maybe it's dumb to worry about air quality when i smoke weed like it's oxygen but yknow what i like it, it's nice, and maybe i'll regret the energy bills but it doesn't feel like that period of being open really affects indoor air temperature that much (i assume the furniture and building and shit has a lot of thermal mass that helps it stay stable)
also guess what, the people who owned this house before put in bourgie glass doors that have hidden screens in them! They roll down from the top, so they're not visible at all with the glass window closed. I had absolutely no idea. I moved to unlatch what I thought was the window, thinking it would slide forward or down and just be open, when this fucking screen rolls down like magic. wowie zowie. And they're the perfect height to leave open and my cats can't do shit to mess with them!
feelin e z breezy over here i tell you
akshually the machine that tells lies informed me that we could have an energy replacement vent installed, which actually does bring in fresh air, but it also said it would cost like 2-6000 dollars and it's like, we ain't got that kinda money to maybe breathe slightly better
i got started thinking about all of this because our bedroom gets noticeably musty throughout the night. I'm wondering if I should just cut a hole in the bedroom door and put in a vent (we have cats we need to keep out because they're annoying)
They invented these fancy "energy replacement vents" so that people would start to think there was something insufficient about just opening the windows, and eventually become more complacent and reliant on passive systems with high upfront costs.
Same way they invented fiberglass and rockwool batts to get us to forget how good of an insulator 12 inches of straw is.
Nah. Straw actually sucks as an insulator. Walls need to be 12+ in thick, they rot like crazy if the relative humidity is above about 40-50%, or if there's any water incursion through the wall. It's also extremely flammable unless you compress it into a solid, wood-like material though that makes it much worse as an insulator.
Fiberglass and Rockwool didn't replace straw, they replaced asbestos.
12"+ exterior walls are good actually, and there are plenty of non-hazardous mineral additives that you can put in a plaster to prevent the interior of the wall from rotting (along with a roof overhang and a good foundation).
And they invented electricity because fire wasn't good enough! (I'm poking fun lol i agree with your sentiment)